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| Criterion |  Growth North Star Metric |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |  Growth Flywheel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When product teams track many metrics, the view of the actual customer outcome easily gets lost. A North Star Metric bundles growth, usage, and value contribution into one signal that makes the system's direction visible. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | For products with complex usage paths, overall growth alone is too coarse to reveal bottlenecks. Pirate Metrics breaks the relationship with the product into consecutive stages and shows where the funnel actually leaks. | Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-2 h | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 3-10 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | GrowthMetricsExperiments | GrowthRetentionConversion |